Season – Page 5 – Valley Talks

[S1,E14] “We had a client before we had a product” – How YC alum Pretty Instant pivoted into becoming Uber for photographers

April 13, 2016

Doug Rogers is a co-founder and Director of Product at Pretty Instant – a service that disrupts the industry of hiring photographers for family and business events. Pretty Instant started as an event photo ... Read More...

[S1,E13] “Broadcast TV must become more social and they still don’t get it” – Adryenn Ashley builds crowdfunding platform for TV Shows

April 2, 2016

Interviews, Season 1

Adryenn Ashley is a movie and TV Producer, social media influencer (200K total followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and founder of CrowdedTV - a crowdfunding platform for reality TV, movies and ta... Read More...

[S1,E12] “Travel is yet just an MVP” – YC alum Roomstorm disrupts the archaic travel space

March 26, 2016

Interviews, Season 1, Y Combinator

Did you know that today hotel's rooms availabilities need to be uploaded in excel spreadsheets, in order to submit updates to some of the biggest booking services? Maksim Izmaylov is a co-founder and CE... Read More...

[S1,E11] “I don’t regret it” — Peeple CEO, Julia Cordray on her controversial app that went infamously viral

March 21, 2016

Interviews, Season 1

Peeple app allows reviewing other people, much like Yelp allows reviewing restaurants, services and places. As soon as the app concept became public, media broke out accusing Peeple's founders of creati... Read More...

[S1,E10 Expert] You will be surprised what Facebook’s former attorney says is true in The Social Network movie

March 1, 2016

Experts, Interviews, Season 1

We've all heard about The Social Network movie, which portrays the founding of Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. In the movie, as well as in reality, Winklevoss brothers claimed that the idea behind ... Read More...

[S1,E9] The challenges of pivoting the product after raising nearly $500k on Kickstarter. Neuroon – intelligent mask that hacks your sleep

February 23, 2016

Interviews, Kickstarter, Season 1

Tomasz Kolodziejak is a co-founder of Inteliclinic, the company that produces Neuroon — the world’s first mask, which allows to modify sleep paterns with patented light therapy. Neuroon had huge success on Ki... Read More...

[S3,E7] The secrets of influencer marketing – Alexa Tonner, Collectively Inc.

[S3,E6] The do's and don'ts in blockchain marketing! – Jesse Ratner, Founder of The Blockchain Agency

[S3,E5] How to pitch your startup to press? Storytelling hacks with Hayley Leibson, Forbes contributor

[S3,E4] Choosing positive vs. negative marketing when fighting fake news - Nicolas Maquaire launches Kloop after a successful exit to Salesforce

[S3,E3] How to use the brand's full potential? – Shift helps military veterans transition into impactful civilian roles

[S3,E2] “Be willing to listen to feedback” - How does Sumo Logic navigate targeting different B2B audiences?

[S1,E14] “We had a client before we had a product” – How YC alum Pretty Instant pivoted into becoming Uber for photographers

[S1,E12] “Travel is yet just an MVP” – YC alum Roomstorm disrupts the archaic travel space

[S1,E10 Expert] You will be surprised what Facebook’s former attorney says is true in The Social Network movie

[S1,E9] The challenges of pivoting the product after raising nearly $500k on Kickstarter. Neuroon – intelligent mask that hacks your sleep